Steppenwolf
Hesse · 1927
P. 102 / 24042%
Frontispiece
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa
A Reading Ledger, Vol. I, 2026
Literature
Books, ideas, and the questions that shape a worldview.
SGC · Los Angeles
Est. 2026
IFront Matter
An introductionReading has always been how I locate myself. When the world gets loud I retreat into a book, and when the book gets loud I underline. The books, ideas, and lines that follow have shaped what I value, how I think, and the questions I keep asking.
IIDispositions
Received2026
Philosophy·Existentialism·Literary Fiction·Dystopian·Absurdism·Historical Fiction·Psychological
IIIOn the Desk
In Circulation01
Seven books at hand.
The Trial
Kafka · 1925
Not opened—
Being and Time
Heidegger · 1927
Not opened—
Barabbas
Lagerkvist · 1950
Not opened—
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera · 1984
Not opened—
On the Road
Kerouac · 1957
Not opened—
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Goethe · 1774
Not opened—
IVThe Library
Catalogued15
These are some selected books I like.
- I.The Moon and SixpenceMaugham · Literary Fiction · 1919
- II.The StrangerCamus · Absurdism · 1942
- III.Thus Spoke ZarathustraNietzsche · Philosophy · 1883
- IV.One Hundred Years of SolitudeGarcía Márquez · Magical Realism · 1967
- V.The MetamorphosisKafka · Existential Fiction · 1915
Show 10 more · VI–XV
- VI.The GodfatherPuzo · Crime Historical · 1969
- VII.1984Orwell · Dystopian · 1949
- VIII.The Kite RunnerHosseini · Historical Fiction · 2003
- IX.The LoverDuras · Literary Fiction · 1984
- X.Animal FarmOrwell · Political Fable · 1945
- XI.The Great GatsbyFitzgerald · Modernist · 1925
- XII.Romance of the Three KingdomsLuo Guanzhong · Historical Epic · 14th c.
- XIII.The Myth of SisyphusCamus · Philosophy · 1942
- XIV.RashōmonAkutagawa · Short Fiction · 1915
- XV.No Longer HumanDazai · Psychological · 1948
VCommonplace Book
Lines that stayedBookmark i.2024
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883
Bookmark ii.2023
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby, 1925
Bookmark iii.2025
I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal where you expect to find a final release from the spirit that torments you.
W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and Sixpence, 1919
Bookmark iv.2026
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus, 1942
VICirculation
Year Open2026
Year
2026
Target
10
Completed
02
In Progress
01